Dumm, Mary

Mary Dumm (1916-2002) was a Methodist Episcopal Church medical missionary to India. She received a B.A. from Swarthmore College in 1938, and an M. A. (1940) and a Ph.D. (1943) from Bryn Mawr College. Dumm was also a Harvard Medical School research fellow in biological chemistry.

From 1942 to 1944 she was an instructor of physiology and biochemistry at Bryn Mawr. In 1944 she became an instructor in the biochemistry department in the College of Medicine at New York University and remained there until 1956. While at N.Y.U. she also worked in the department of medicine with a research group conducting studies on nutrition and metabolic disease. Dumm became an adjunct assistant professor in biochemistry in 1950.

In 1956 she went to India and began work at Christian Medical College in Vellore, North Arcot, where she lectured in biochemistry and nutrition and was active in research.